ARE WE SANTAS IN REAL LIFE??

As I was riffing through the May edition of Reader’s Digest an article instantly caught my attention. It was about a simple man making a big difference to innumerable village children. I was baffled for pro tempore when I read through the article to find out that

Hemant Chabbra, a mediocre business man is responsible for helping the children in Jhadpoli village, Maharashtra. People who are well fixed (that includes me) are hesitant or slothful when it comes to serve the less privileged. How mean can we get!!!!!(I m not generalizing... there are quite a few exceptions!!!) This realization hit me hard on my head. I feel all of us at some point in our life are over shadowed by our ephemeral desires and in the process forsake virtues and turn into money minded zombies. And the consequnece is we fail to actualize that we have made ourselves into human machines devoid of emotions.

Chabbra’s novel idea of reusing disused and rusty bicycles that were discarded by the privileged children of Mumbai has helped myriad village children attend their distant school on a regular basis. He has bounteously added the urge in these children to take up education as basal to their otherwise arduous life.

Though this contribution may seem to be of lesser magnitude, its effect is emphatic and tremendous. “Small drops make mighty ocean”. This is possible only if all of us help towards the betterment of the community even if it is going to be infinitesimal.

There are lot of children who are in dire need of a Christmas Santa Clause to fulfill their wishes. The only way to make their wish come true is by bringing out the Santa in us in whichever possible way.